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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Security Engineer - **Company:** OVO - **Location:** Glasgow, UK - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** £52,800.0 - £76,038.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Software Applications, JIRA, Automation of Tests, Microsoft Azure, Software as a Service, Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing Security, Cloud Engineering, Code Review, Cyber Security, Information Security Management, Secure Coding, User-Centered Design, Google Cloud, Data Analytics, Vulnerability Analysis - **Published:** July 16, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.totaljobs.com/job/senior-security-engineer/ovo-energy-job107696496 ## About the Role * You are an engineer with a growth mindset who seeks to broaden your soft and technology skills. * You are passionate about developing products that will positively impact our mission to deliver Plan Zero. * You love working in teams collaborating and knowledge sharing to build features that impact customers. * You are motivated by owning products, from inception to continuous improvement. * You value test automation as a key part of your role as a security engineer. * You love building scalable, resilient solutions. Systems: experience building integrations, workflows, actionable insights and operating models based on the following technologies and platforms would be advantageous (we are not expecting candidates to have experience in all these platforms): * Cloud Native Application Protection and Cloud Security Posture Management (Wiz). * Application Security Posture Management (Wiz Code). ## Description As an application security specialist, your primary responsibility will be to ensure the security of software applications. You will work closely with development teams to develop and implement secure coding practices and guidelines. You will also conduct security assessments to identify vulnerabilities in existing applications and recommend mitigations. Additionally, you will perform code reviews to ensure that new code adheres to security best practices., * GCP, AWS and Azure native security and compliance monitoring. * SaaS discovery, event monitoring and security posture management. * Endpoint, Cloud and Identity Detection and Response. * Threat Modelling. * Issue and Project Tracking (Jira). * Cyber Asset and Attack Surface Management. * Infrastructure Vulnerability Scanning. You'll be a successful Security Engineer here at OVO if you… * Are a creator: You're a hands-on Senior Engineer who takes a user-centered design approach to build and administer automated security verification workflows; you lead by example, leveraging APIs and policy agents to pull and/or aggregate data from various sources, combining sources to enrich and inform GRC. * Are a challenger: you embrace failure and do not shy away from difficult conversations in order to drive business and cyber risk strategy and security architecture alignment. 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